Genesis 12:4

So Abram set out, as the Lord had commanded him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

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In The King James Version

So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

In Context

3I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you, and all the families of the earth will ask for themselves a blessing like your own.”

5He took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son and all the slaves that they had acquired in Haran, and started for the land of Canaan.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:27Now these are the descendants of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

Genesis 13:5Lot, who went with Abram, also had so many flocks and herds and tents

Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:2-4

The Call of Abram. ( b. c. 1921.) 1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. We have here the call by which Abram was removed out of the land of his nativity… Read the whole commentary →

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